Conway’s Base 13 Function
(N.b. Credit where credit’s due: I learned about this function from an answer of Robin Chapman’s on MathOverflow, and its measurability from Noah Stein.)
Conway’s base 13-function is a strange beast. It was originally crafted by John Conway as a counterexample to the converse of the intermediate value theorem, and has the property that on any open interval its image contains the entire real line. In addition, its support set also serves as an illustration of a dense, uncountable set of numbers whose Lebesgue measure is 0. Read the rest of this entry »